John 2:16
And He said to those selling the doves, “Take these things away from here! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise!”
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
17Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “ The zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
Cross References
Matthew 21:13And He said to them, “It is written, ‘ My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘ den of thieves.’ ”
Luke 2:49And He said to them, “Why is it that you were seeking Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?”
John 8:49Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon; but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.
John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’ ”
1 Timothy 6:5constant wranglings of men of corrupt minds and deprived of the truth, supposing that godliness is a means of profit. Withdraw from such people.
Matthew Henry on John 2:13-23
Temple-Merchandise Punished; Christ's Death and Resurrection Foretold. 12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days. 13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the… Read the whole commentary →